Moppity Vineyards Lock & Key Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Moppity Lock&Key Pinot Noir 2024.

Moppity Vineyards Lock & Key Pinot Noir 2024
$30, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.

The feet, below the surface, are paddling furiously in this well-structured Pinot Noir. It leads with ripe macerated cherry flavours and that’s its main shtick, but below the fruit there are complex characters of woodsmoke, undergrowth, dried herbs and peppercorns. Dry strings of tannin are well managed here, while a smoked-flowers aspect gives the wine an extra, exotic edge, and quite a bit of interest. There’s good drinking to be had here. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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